Sculptor Robin Shores received a BFA in Sculpture from the University of Oregon in 1972 and a MFA in Sculpture from the University of Buffalo in 1974 after being discharged from the United States Navy in 1969. Robin taught at Boston University and the Boston Center for the Arts, was a volunteer with the American Friends Service Committee, a Fulbright scholar in India in 1987, a Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana West Africa from 1995 to 1997 and in Bangladesh in 2001. He has received grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Gottlieb Foundation, and Roswell Artist-in-Residence program.